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Women's Health - Family Health Ministries

Website: http://www.familyhm.org/Health%20Women.htm


Mission: Since 1993, FHM has been working in Leogane, Haiti. Our focus there has been cervical cancer prevention. As time goes on, our service to the community is expanding.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

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http://www.familyhm.org/Ongoing%20earthquake%20updates.html#fondwapics

UPDATE FROM KATHY WALMER IN LEOGANE, HAITI; DUKE REMEDY SUPPLIES ARRIVE(Received Friday afternoon, 29 January, 2010)

Just experienced my first aftershock…it is a weird sensation. Everyone stood up to run, but all is well. -K

(Received earlier on Friday afternoon, 29 January, 2010)

I am doing well and I am in Leogane. We landed on the by-pass road on our second attempt (yes it was a moment for prayer!). After aborting the first try and competing with airspace with a large Marine cargo helicopter we finally landed right next to our sugarcane field. It was rather surreal to step off the plane and face the UN troops and US military.

We made it to the nursing school where they are continuing triage wound care, surgery, and primary care. I will leave Chris McCain here tomorrow as their OB consultant for the facility. I had lunch with Hilda Alcindor, the Dean of the Nursing School today. She looks extremely tired, but is her usual resourceful self. She is an amazing woman.

I have seen both Daphnée and Sheila. They are both working hard and I am so proud of their accomplishments working in this situation. Dean Alcindor had wonderful things to say about Daphnée.

(Editor's Note - Daphnée is a nursing student from the Fondwa orphanage whose school is paid for by FHM's nursing scholarship program. Sheila is a recent nursing school graduate and an employee of FHM's Leogane Clinic.)

Leogane is almost a total loss. The estimate of 80-90% collapse is not an exaggeration. It does not seem as apparent until you realize every house you look at is actually the second floor.

I stayed with Delson Merisier ‘s family last evening. We had dinner and showers at his parents’ house and then moved to his home where 10 of us slept under a tarp in his driveway.

There are many tent cities all over the town, the largest being outside the nursing school and on the local soccer field.

There are going to be a massive health issues when the rainy season starts.

The Haitian people are already working on the enormous mounds of concrete by hand. Delson has hired a crowd of six who work daily in the sun to make huge pieces of concrete into mounds the size to shovel off the roof. I look at this with such admiration, but it seems so futile.

The Haitians seem to go about their normal day; selling items in the market which are beginning to reopen, riding down the street two to a bike, and hauling large buckets on their heads. It is not until you stop and watch that you feel the desperation of the situation. You realize all the children our out of school, there are long lines outside of the one open Western Union and people wander the nursing school looking for water. Yes, water and food shipments still seem to be a significant issue.

Duke Remedy Supplies, Sent by Truck and Airplane Have Arrived

Yesterday we received three pickup trucks worth of supplies that we shipped from Duke Remedy. I will divide up the supplies between the Blanchard and Leogane clinics. It was really great to stand there and look at the boxes we had shipped from Durham and know that not only had the supplies arrived in Leogane, but that our clinics as well as the nursing school hospital will get to use them.

I head into PAP tomorrow and will meet the medical team at the DR border. I have talked with Leon and he is waiting for our arrival. We are planning to stay in the Blanchard clinic space. We will see what next week brings.

Thanks for all your love, support, and continued prayer. Please know I am doing well.

-Kathy

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LEOGANE SATELLITE OUTPATIENT CLINIC
FHM's satellite outpatient clinic opened on the 22nd of January 2009. This clinic will be the base for Family Health Ministries until the Health & Research Center is open, after which it will continue to be used for emergencies, evening apointments and other FHM activities.

Haiti's infant mortality rate is very high, the worst in the Western Hemisphere, at 60 per 1000 births, per UNICEF, compared to the US at 7 per 1000 births.

FHM aims to improve these dreadful statistics in the new facility which will provide pediatrics and hospital care as well as prenatal care, deliveries, and FHM's cervical cancer prevention program.

FHM's new satellite clinic marks a major step for the people of Leogane, providing free healthcare to mothers who are indigent. After Hopital St. Croix's closing in January 2008, families had to travel to Port-au-Prince or do without expert care. In March 2009, the cervical cancer prevention program moved to the Satellite clinic.

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